An oyster may be crossed in love.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.